Boardroom Media (CEO News)
At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Sydney based CEO’ operating in the Association space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Tony Stuart
CEO of UNICEF Australia
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About UNICEF Australia: UNICEF works in more than 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence.
Nick Giurietto
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADDCA)
Participant in the ISO study group on blockchain standardization and regulation in Australia. Currently driving the adoption of blockchain technology across all sectors of the economy.
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About Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADDCA): ADCCA is the country’s leading council and representation of and for digital currency businesses along with other key industry participants.
Nicholas Giurietto
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADDCA)
Nicholas Giurietto is an experienced B2B Product and Marketing leader who has lived and worked in six different countries around the world. As Head of Marketing at the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation he worked with Australian exporters seeking finance to fund growth and investment in overseas markets. The complexities of existing trade finance and asset finance models were often a baffling obstacle for entrepreneurial exporters to overcome. As Head of Product at Experian Credit Services, Nick worked to design a new format consumer credit report that makes it easier for Australians to access and understand their credit records. He also led the design and build of a cloud solution for major banking clients to manage their complex data reporting obligations for credit records.
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About Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association (ADDCA): ADCCA is the country’s leading council and representation of and for digital currency businesses along with other key industry participants.
Julie Trell
CEO of muru-D
As Advisor on All Things Fun, Meaningful & Rewarding, Julie believes that making a positive impact in the world is fundamental to authentic personal and community happiness. Julie’s path to corporate philanthropy started as a founding member of the Salesforce.com Foundation in 2000 after a serendipitous meeting with Founder and CEO, Marc Benioff. As part of the 1/1/1 model of integrated philanthropy, she launched the award winning employee volunteer program. Julie built and led the signature Salesforce Foundation BizAcademy program for high school students who are interested in entrepreneurism. It brought the students and Salesforce employees together to go through the hands-on process of building a company. After her 12 year tenure as VP of All Things Fun, Meaningful & Rewarding at the Salesforce.com Foundation, Julie became the Executive Director of the Workday Foundation. She created systems and programs for employee engagement and an impact grant program funding innovative ideas in health and education. Julie applies her 14 years of experience in corporate philanthropy with those eager to create change and solve social challenges locally and globally. She works with emerging companies to design innovative integrated philanthropy programs where their product, services and people can provide resources that make positive change. She also advises budding young entrepreneurs. With her M.Ed in education and a classroom teacher and technology specialist in Atlanta, she too had her own aha moments, as she managed a network of 300 computers in a middle school with no formal training. She was named Apple Distinguished Educator in 1998.
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About muru-D, SheEO: Muru-D is an accelerator that helps tech founders scale their businesses smarter and faster.
Blair Palese
Co-founder and CEO of 350.org
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About 350.org, Climate & Capital Media, XDI: The Cross Dependency Initiative: 350.org is climate-focused campaigns, projects and actions led from the bottom-up by people in 188 countries.
Jo Burston
Founder & CEO of Inspiring Rare Birds
Jo Burston is the founder and CEO of Job Capital, co-founder and director of Phronesis.Academy and founder of the entrepreneurial movement Inspiring Rare Birds. Rare Birds promotes opportunities for women in entrepreneurship and has a global vision of one million women in its community by 2020. Sharing entrepreneurial journeys is one of Rare Birds’ core offerings and Jo has so far published three books – Brilliant BusinessKids, Australia’s 50 Influential Women Entrepreneurs and #IFSHECANICAN. Jo has been recognised as one of Australia’s top entrepreneurs for the past six years and is a leading authority on global women’s entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship as a whole, and SMB markets. Jo has been invited to speak at events around the world and was recently part of the first inflight Tech Talk in collaboration with TEDxSydney and Qantas. She is on the global board of Women’s Network and is a global ambassador for Xero, and Microsoft. She’s also a regional Oceania ambassador for the UN-recognised Women’s Entrepreneurship Day and is on the advisory board for University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Innovation and Entrepreneur Advisory Group, and LaunchVIC – a $60 million body designed by the Victorian Government to accelerate startups. Jo has personally advised The Prime Minister and the top 20 heads of entrepreneurship and innovation in Australia across academia, industry and government, which resulted in the release of Australia’s Innovation paper in 2015. In addition, Jo has advised the State Government (SMB Minister, Minister for Women and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade).
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About Inspiring Rare Birds, Inspiring Rare Birds, Job Capital, Phronesis.Academy: Giving women entrepreneurs the tools and resources to scale their businesses globally.
David Ball
CEO of Space Environment Research Centre
David Ball has 25 years of experience in the telecommunications, media and technology sectors with a significant portion of his career specialising in satellite communications. David has held senior positions encompassing sales leadership, business development, engineering and space systems development. Prior to joining SERC, David was an Executive Consultant with Envista Pty Ltd supporting several defence communications projects. Until July 2015, David was the Chief Technology Officer for NewSat Limited and was responsible for all technical matters relating to the Jabiru Satellite Program. Prior to joining NewSat in early 2011, David was the Regional Vice President Asia-Pacific for Intelsat and also held that position for PanAmSat prior to the merger between PanAmSat and Intelsat in 2006. David also filled a variety of sales, customer engineering and product management roles for PanAmSat. David served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Australian Air Force specializing in fixed, tactical and mobile communications systems management before joining PanAmSat in 1995. David holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree (Communications Engineering) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and a Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Deakin University.
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About Space Environment Research Centre: SERC brings together expertise and resources from leading universities, international space agencies.
